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Here are some news items excerpted from the newspaper Frankfort Democrat, Frankfort,
Clinton County, Indiana, Saturday, January 1, 1887, Volume 3, Number 1.
Page 1, column 2
Second Edition
Local and General
A literary society has been organized at Middle Fork.
S. Griffin, of Middle Fork, has sold his residence to Dan Hinesley.
Rev. Fritz, of Rossville, has accepted the call as pastor of Middle Fork Baptist
church.
Mrs. J. Pritchard, of Russiaville is dead.
Samuel Blystone, of Boyleston, says this is an excellent winter on stock.
The new U. B. church near Thorntown will be dedicated in about two weeks.
Dronberger & Co. have moved their office to the room just north of the old fire
engine house.
Sam Paul, the saw mill man of Boyleston, is doing a booming business this winter.
Rev. Stirewalt will hold services at the Lutheran church on Sunday morning, Jan. 2d at
10:30. All are cordially invited.
Hadley Kimberling, conductor of the Dronberger & Co. yard wide poultry car arrived
here yesterday with another car load of live poultry from Illinois.
Andy Hoover and wife, who went to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, for the benefit of the
formers health, have returned. Mr. Hoover's health was not very much benefitted by
the change.
We were told yesterday that Yank Whittaker who left here some time ago for Birmingham,
Alabama, had gone into the restaurant business in that city and was doing a good business
and was well pleased with the country.
E. E. Smith has retired from the presidency of Purdue University and Cyrus W. Rodgin,
of the Richmond normal school has been elected to fill the vacancy.
The Christmas tree which was given by the members of the Baptist church near
Russiaville was a grand success, presents to the amount of $600 were given from the tree.
E. Fulkerson, the wood man, is negotiating with parties east of the city for an eighty
acre tract of timber land and will, if he makes the purchase, commence at once to have it
cut into fire wood.
A young man by the name of Walter Harmon, living near Burlington, was out rabbit
hunting a few days ago, when the shot gun which he was carrying accidentally went off
tearing his left hand in a horrible manner. Dr. Chittick, of Burlington, was called and
dressed the wound, at present he is getting along as well as could be expected. He will
be a cripple for life.
Page 1, column 3
What Frankfort is badly in need of is additional manufacturing enterprises.
The mercury registered seven degrees below zero Monday morning.
A son of William Watson, living near Burnside, who has been very sick, is
convalescent.
A couple of young colored bloods, of Thorntown, were arrested at Lebanon Thursday, for
stealing a horse and buggy.
Many of our readers will doubtless be surprised to learn of the marriage Dec. 21, ath
the home of R. M. Allen, a former resident of this city, now living at Neosha Falls,
Kansas, of Miss Ella J. Dimmick, of this city, to Harry G. Douglas, of Frankfort, Ind.
C. J. Kinney and wife, of Chicago, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Gaddis over
Sunday. Mr. Kinney is chief bookkeeper of the civil engineers department of the Chicago
& Alto Ry with headquarters at that place. Mr. Kinney was formerly a resident of this
city.
MARRIED - At the residence of Mrs. Amanda D. Bynum, in Jackson township, this county,
Dec. 30, 1886, by Rev. W. P. Koutz, Mr. William D. Caldwell, of Delphi, Ind., to Miss
Mollie A. Bynum of this county. The occasion was a most pleasant one. A large and
delighted party witnessed the nuptials. The tables literaly groaned. Long live the happy
couple.
Squire Isaac Cook, of this city is lying in a very critical condition at his home on
South Columbia street. Last Tuesday while sitting in his office, he had a stroke of
paralysis and when found was lying in an unconscious state. He remained in this condition
some time but finally regained consciousness at at this time is able to converse some.
Mr. Wittrock was an amateur at train robbing - it was his first crime of that sort -
but he had kept a coal yard, and from that the descent is rapid. It is but a short step
from keeping a coalyard to robbing an express car. When that is borne in mind, his sucess
as an express robber, although an entirely new had at it, does not appear so remarkable
after all.
John Burns, living just north of the city, has just completed the building of two very
large stock barns. He has also built in the past year two very neat cottages. Both barns
and dwellings were covered with the very best of slate roofing that could be bought. Mr.
Burns is a man who never does anything by halves.
The following officers were elected for the Baptist Sunday-school for the ensuing
year: Supt., Chas. West; Assistant Supt., Mrs. Lacy; Secretary and Treasurer, Miss
Minnie Howard: Organist, Alice Palmer; Librarian, Dallie Lacy.
MARRIED - At the residence of the bride's brother, Van Binkley, on East Washington
street, Thursday, Dec. 30, at two p. m., by the Rev. Cummings, Miltrn [sic] S. Poyner, of
Winchester, Ind., to Maggie L. Binkley, of Frankfort. Mr. and Mrs. Poyner leave New
Year's morning for their future home in Winchester.
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The Christmas pond at Antioch was well attended with an unusual crowded house, filling
up before dark. The opening by Theodore Reagan, followed by Elder A. J. Akers. Miss Eva
Bishop gave a recitation with much credit, entitled "Guilty or not Guilty,"
followed by the reading of a paper by Miss Minnie Davidson. Mr. Jacob Hodgen offered a
few remarks, and at the conclusion presented Mr. Geo. L. Kern with a handsome gold charm
as a momento from the Sunday-school. Several excellent pieces of music were rendered by
the young folks, assisted [???] Henry minstrels, and then came the distribution of
presents fished out of the pond by Santa Claus and his wife, who were seated in a boat,
which floated over the imaginary surface of the pond. The number of presents, by actual
count, exclusive of candy, were 710, in value about $500 in all. The pond was a sucess.
I can find no mention of it in the photocopy I have of this issue of the newspaper, but I
believe the editor to have been my great-grandfather, B. F. Palmer. (Benjamin Franklin
Palmer, b. 22 Jan 1847 in Indiana, d. 19 Jul 1898 in Pulaski County, Illinois.)
I am posting items of interest from this newspaper to aid other researchers.